Chasing Totality: 2024 Solar Eclipse with UW College of the Environment and ESS

Join graduate students from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington College of the Environment as they chase the March 2024 total solar eclipse across the Midwest - the last to be seen in the U.S. for the next 20 years.
In "Chasing Totality: The 2024 Solar Eclipse," the team traveled from Seattle to Missouri and finally to Arkansas to reach the center of a narrow 115-mile band of totality stretching from Texas to Maine. In this zone, the sun is completely covered by the moon, creating four minutes of night in the middle of the day, and revealing the stunning solar corona.
Despite uncertain weather and moving clouds, Calico Rock, Arkansas, provided ideal conditions to witness the breathtaking totality atop ancient fossilized beach sandstones. With a solar H-alpha telescope in tow to capture the sun’s chromosphere, the students and UW research assistant professor Baptiste Journaux will never forget this cross-country adventure and celestial spectacle.
Read a related Q&A with Journaux about the trip: www.washington...